Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:01:14 -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:50:34 -0700 david wildgoose wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> > Last time I had to make a "fine-grained" debugging operation over my
>> > network using wireshark I had to "restore-to-life" an old (and dusty)
>> > hub that came with our DSL device... back in 2000 :-P
>> >
>> >
>> Port monitoring is something thats useful in troubleshooting network
>> related problems on networks using switches, thought I think your
>> switch needs to support it.
Yes.
> IIUC, you may be confusing two scenarios: with hubs, all traffic always
> gets sent out to all connected systems, so monitoring is
> straightforward. With switches, traffic is normally sent only to the
> target hosts, so to monitor general network traffic from a specific
> host, mirroring is needed, and it is indeed a special feature of some
> switches:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring
True, but David is also right. As you point out, there are some
enterprise switches that implement a monitoring port (an special "catch-
all-data" port that when enabled, it captures all the traffic).
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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